Leading game industry professionals and Insert Credit Show regulars Mathew Kumar and Ash Parrish rejoin the panel for Mario voice cast announcements, Bayon3tta, and esports.
Questions this week:
- From Brandon Sheffield: What games have been helped or hindered by having a tertiary gameplay system? (3:00)
- Was the Mario movie voice cast announcement really that bad? (09:17)
- In a side scrolling game, how large should the player character be? (15:13)
- Where does Bayonetta go from here? (20:22)
- What is the greatest unsolvable problem in game design? (24:45)
- Dirtbag Tiger Tiger asks three questions and for some reason Jaffe allows it (29:45)
- How do you report on mods and fan projects, knowing that more attention might get them shut down? (35:02)
- What’s going on in the Overwatch League lately? (39:10)
- How concerned should we be about video game censorship in China? (48:34)
- For real though, what is the Mamma Mia! of video games? (54:49)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Mash-up Merch (59:25)
Wait a minute, were you really not gonna discuss this episode in the forums?!
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Hey, Bayonetta, what is the main ingredient of guacamole??
- Dungeon Explorer
- Save Ribbons
- Amnesia series
- Fable
- Mario casting news
- Chris Pratt
- Charles Martinet reading paragraphs as Mario
- Nolan North
- Dana Carvey
- Martin Short
- Only Murderers in the Building
- Giancarlo Esposito
- Bob Hoskins
- John Leguizamo
- The Lego Movie (2014)
- Paulie Walnuts
- Final Fight series
- God Hand
- Super Mario 3D World
- Hollow Knight
- Bayonetta
- Fly Me To The Moon cover
- Moon River cover
- That's Amore
- Blue Moon
- Hideki Kamiya
- Bizarro
- New World
- Ultima Online
- Emotion Engine
- Dynasty Warriors series
- Hyrule Warriors
- Berserk and the Band of the Hawk
- Persona 5 Strikers
- Final Fantasy XV ramen ad
- Ronald Reagan
- SAGE
- i'm not gonna link you to Zone animations, sorry
- The Shanghai Dragons
- Geguri
- Ted Lasso
- China limits online gaming for children to 3 hours per week
- Chinese Overwatch teams boycott South Korean player
- Genshin Impact censorship
- John Cena apologizes for calling Taiwan a country
- Devotion
- Mamma Mia! (2008)
- ABBA
- ABBA Virtual London concert
- Sonic CD
- Make My Video: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
- Sonic Mania
- Street Fighter The Movie The Video Game
- Kylie Minogue
Recommendations:
Mathew: National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, Commission Reports, Native-Land.ca
Brandon: Shuumi Land Tax, Mntu by Ushangvagush
Ash: Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day Oct. 11th, Sable
Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.